Automatic mixer and distributer.



No. 811,749. PATENTED FEB. 6, 1906 A. N, SOMERS.

AUTOMATIG MIXER AND DISTEIBUTER.

APPLIGATION YILED JULY 7. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1906.

Application died July i, 1985. Burial No. 268,691.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos N. Somnns, a citizen-of the United States, residing at Sharon, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massa chusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automatic Mixers and Distributers, of lhich the following is a specification.

This inventionfrelates to a device for automatically mixing and distributing with accuracy chemical solutions and mixtures that are applied in the arts and industries as washes, sprays, and powders.

It is designed for use in the administration of medicines, disinfectants, insecticides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers, said device acting automatically and with mathematical accuracy to overcome all the former difliculties in the uses hereinbefore set forth to which it isada ted and also eliminate all that is unsafe, un easant, and uncertain in said uses. Said evice is used by physicians and dentists in the administration of medicine and in the sap lication of disinfectants and is also adapte i i)! use by all persons having the care of homes, hospitals, public buildings, factories, school-houses, warehouses, and stahles in applying disinfectants and by farmers, gardeners, florists, and fruit-growers in spraying their crops to rotect them from the ravages of insects an diseases. It is also well adapted for use by owners of forest, shade, and fruit trees and shrubbery in protecting them from the insects and diseases b which they are at present largely destroys The object of the invention is to provide a device which will perform the functions here inbefore set forth and which is simple in construction and operation and which is also cheap in construction, so that it may bring the same within the use and within the means of a large number of people.

The advantages of said device consist in the fact that it saves time, labor, and expense, while securing the best possible results in its accurate mixing and distributing of materials, such as hereinbefore set forth, with water or other liquids.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification, and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a central vertical section, partly in elevation, of my improved mixer and distributor, partly broken away to save space in the drawings.

7 whereby Fig. 2 is a detail plan of the main-passage regulating stop-cock, showing the same in connection with the tubular main passage, said tube being artly broken away. Fi 3 is a section, artly in elevation, taken on inc 3 3 of Fi 1 coking toward the right in said figure. i 4 is a horizontal section talren on line 4 4 of ig. 1 looking downwardly in said gure.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 is the top, and 6 the base of my improved mixing and distributing evice. The base 6 consists of a receptacle provided with a cylindrical chamber 7 in the interior thereof. The to 5 com rises a tube 8, which forms a ban e and as extending therethrough a main passage 9, said tube being provided with an inlet-orifice 10 and an outlet-orifice 1 1. The inlet end of said tube is screw-threaded interior-l at 12, while the outlet end thereof is screw-threaded exteriorly at 13. Between the inlet and outlet orifices, as will be seen, the tube 8 extends transversely across the receptacle or base 6, and an opening 14, located beneath said tube extends across the top 5, so that the central portion of said tube may be used as a handle,

venient carried.

in et-passage extends from the interior of the tube 8, adjacent to the inlet end thereof, downwardl through the to 5 and terminates in the c amber 7. A. to e 16 is connected at the 1.1 per end thereof to the top 5 at the bottom 0? the inlet-passage 15 and rejects downwardly therefrom toward the bottom of the chamber 7, and at its lower end is bent in a curve as will be observed in Fig. 4, extending artiy around said chamber, the lower free end 17 of said tube 16 being curved upwardly, so that any liquid or compressed air forced throu h the passage 15 and tube 16 will be directe around the interior of the chamber and also upwardly therein to thoroughly mix the contents in said chamber, as hereinbefore described, and to drive said contents outwardly fi'om said chamber through the outlet-passe. e 18, which extends upwardly from the c amber 7 through the top 5 and terminates at its upper end in a tube 19. The tube 19 is bent or curved at its upper free end and terminates adjacent to the outlet-orifice 11 and preferably concentric with the main passe e 9.

the device as a whole may be con A stop-cock 20 is ocated in the main pas- V sage 9 between the inleepassage 15 and the outlet-passa e 18, said cpl-cock being provided with a andle 21 and avin fast thereto an index-finger 22, so arranger as to pass over the aduations 23 provided upon the flat annu ar surface 24, formed upon the upper side of the tubular handle 8. The graduations 23 are subdivisions of aquarter-circle, and when in the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 the index shows that the stop-cock is wide open, the index then pointin to the graduation marked 100, and w en the stop-cock is closed the index will point to the graduation marked 0, so that said graduations enable the operator to tell to a nicety just how much the stop-cock is open and at what an le said stop-cock stands with relation to t e median central line of the main passage 9.

The inlet-passa e 15 is provided with a stop-cock 25 and the outlet-passage 18 with a stop-cock 26, each of said stop-cocks being provided with an index-finger 27 and 28, respectively, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1 said indexfin ers traveling over graduated indices or sea cs 29 and 30, respectively, whereby the amount of o ening of each of said stop-cocks is readily etermined by the operator.

A screw-plug 31 is provided in the top 5, whereby ready access may be obtained to the interior of the base or receptacle 6 for the purpose of inserting any desired material, either liquid or solid, in the interior of said rece tacle or in the chamber 7.

he operation of my improved mixer and distributer is as follows: Assuming that the material is in powdered form and that it is desired to mix the same with a liquidsuch as, for instance, water-said material is inserted in the chamber 7 by removing the screw-plug 31, and said screw-plug is then screwed tightly in place. The tube 8 is connected at its inlet end by a hose or pipe to the water-supply. The water is then turned on and allowed to flow through the passage 9 and out at the outlet-orifice 11, a portion of the water (depending upon the position of the stop-cock 20 and of the stop-cocks 25 and 26) assing through the inlet-passage 15 and inet-tube 16, out of the open end 17 of said tube, and mixing with the powder, which is thoroughly stirred by the force of the water and dissolved in said water,'which then passes outwardly from said chamber 7 throu 'h the outlet-passage 18 and out of the tube 19, where it is again mixed with the water which is assing throu h the main passage 9. It wil be seen that by turning the different stop-cocks to different positions a different amount of material may be mixed with the water and different results obtained both as to the amount of material mixed with the water and also as to the force with which said water and the material which is mixed therewith are ejected from the tube 8, so that a very strong solution ma be obtained or a very weak solution, anc any desired strength of solution from the strongest to the weakest by proper manipulation of the different stop-cocks.

If desired, it is evident that the stopcocks 25 and 26 may be closed and the device used without intermixing with the water any of the material contained in the chamber 7, or, if desired, the stop-cock 20 may be closed and compressed air forced through the inletpassage 15 into the chamber 7 and the owdered material contained therein f()I'(J8( out through the outlet-passage 18.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to secure, 1s

- 1. A device of the character described comprising in its construction a receptacle havmg a chamber therein, said device provided with a main passage outside said chamber, said main passa e having an inlet and an outlet orifice, said evice provided with an inletpassage leading from said -main passage at the inlet end thereof to said chamber, a tube connected to said inletassage and rojecting therefrom downward y toward the )ottom of said chamber, said device provided with an outlet-passage leading from said chamber into the outlet end of said main passage, a stop-cock located in said main passage between the points Where said inlet and outlet passages connect with said main passage, graduations whereby the angular location of said stop-cock relatively to the median line of said main passage is in icated, astop-cock loeated in each of said inlet and outlet passages, respectively, and graduations whereby the extent of o ening of said last-named stopcocks is indicate 2. A device of the character described com prising in its construction a receptacle havmg a chamber therein, said device provided with a main passage outside said chamber, said main passa e having an inlet and an outlet orifice, said evice provided with an inletpassage leading from said main passage at the inlet end thereof to said chamber, a tube connected to said inletassage and rejecting therefrom downward y toward the ottom of said chamber, said device provided with an outlet-passa e leading from said chamber into the out et end of said main passage, a stop-cock located in said main passage between said inlet and outlet passages, and a stop-cock located in each 0 said inlet and out et passages, respectively.

3. A device of the character described comprising in its construction a receptacle havmg a chamber therein, said device provided with a main passage outside said chamber, said main passa I e having an inlet and an outlet orifice, said eviee provided with an inletpassage leading from said main passage at the inlet end thereof to said chamber, a tube connected to said inletassage and rojectin therefrom downward y toward the ottom 0 said chamber and curved at its lower end to extend partly around said chamber, said device provided with an outlet-passage leadin from said chamber into the outlet end of sai main passage, a stop-cock located in said main passage between said inlet and outlet passages, and a stopcock located in each of said inlet and outlet assages, respectively.

4. A device of the c aracter described comprising in its construction a receptacle having a chamber therein, said device provided with a main passage outside said chamber, said main passage having an inlet and an outlet orifice, said device provided with an inlet assage leading from said main passage at the inlet end thereof to said chamber, a tube connected to said inlet-passage and rojectin downwardly therefrom toward the ottom 0 said chamber and curved at its lower end to extend partly around said chamber, said device provided with an outlet-passage leadin from said chamber into the outlet end of sai main passage, a tube leading from said outlet-passage mto said main passage at its outlet end, bent at the free end thereof, and terminating concentric with said main passage adjacent to the outlet-orifice thereof.

5. A device of the character described cornprisin in its construction a top and a base, detac ably fastened together, said base comprising in its construction a receptacle havmg a chamber therein, said top comprisin in its construction a tubular handle exten mg transversely across said receptacle and terminating at its opposite ends in an inlet and an outlet orifice, respectively, with screwthreaded projections thereon, a sto -cock in said tubular handle between sai orifices, said top rovided with an inletassage extending em the interior of sai tube adjacent to said inlet-orifice to the interior of said recegtacle and with an outlet-passe e leading om the interior of said receptac e to the interior of said tube adjacent to said outletorifice, and a stop-cock located in each of said inlet and outlet passages, respectively.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- IIBSSBS.

AMOS N. SOMERS Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GOODING, ANNIE J. DAILEY. 

